43 USC § 446 - Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s446"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 446 - Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "446"
section_name: "Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.)"
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# § 446. Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws

Wherever the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of the reclamation Act, shall acquire by relinquishment lands covered by a bona fide unperfected entry under the land laws of the United States, the entryman upon such tract may make another and additional entry, as though the entry thus relinquished had not been made.

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**Source Credit**: (June 27, 1906, ch. 3559, § 2, 34 Stat. 519.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The reclamation Act, referred to in text, is identified in .